[meta-intel] [MinnowBoard][PATCH] systemd: Conditionally add network file for systemd

[Burton, Ross]

On 19 November 2014 22:00, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> It seems to be a tricky one as the network interfaces are BSP-specific.
> This is a follow-on to:
>
> $ git show e3718d2
> commit e3718d24e9d2bbdac00d6f1ebd8cbe2894981e4e
> Author: Sujith H <Sujith_Haridasan at mentor.com>
> Date:   2014-07-30
>
>     systemd: Network configuration for minnow board
>
>     Adding network configuration for minnow board.
>
> Which adds:
>
> +++ b/recipes-core/systemd/systemd/10-dhcp.network
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +[Match]
> +Name=en*
> +
> +[Network]
> +DHCP=yes
>
> This is specific to Minnow having an en0 interface, while other boards
> might have eth0, or some other name. The DHCP bit is arguably a DISTRO
> policy however.
>
> Perhaps a more generic version which matches a host of common names
> would be better and we could drop this rather basic one from meta-minnow
> all together.
>

Considering that oe-core disables networkd, this can still be considered a
distro-specific tweak. And isn't en* the standard name for ethernet devices
on all hardware when systemd is renaming network devices, so this isn't
BSP-specific?

(
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#n20
)

Ross
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